Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More

Republicans to back Obama's student loan planHouse Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More

Romney draws boos from NAACP when he dings ObamaHOUSTON (AP) – Republican Mitt Romney is telling black voters that he's a better choice than President Obama to help build their neighborhoods and lessen unemployment among African Americans. But Romney was greeted with boos from attendees at the NAACP's ...07/11/2012 - 10:06 am | View Link

Romney draws boos from NAACP when he dings ObamaHOUSTON (AP) - Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd, Mitt Romney declared Wednesday he'd do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the nation's first black president. He drew jeers when he lambasted the Democrat's policies. "If you want a ...07/11/2012 - 6:11 am | View Link

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A Republican lawmaker in North Carolina defended his so-called “religious freedom” bill after Indiana came under file for a similar bill that critics said would allow Christian businesses to discriminate against LGBT people. Republican state Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam told WNCN th

CREDIT: ThinkProgress/ Esther Y. Lee Undocumented immigrants who make it to college face a host of financial and logistical barriers. But they are dramatically more likely to succeed if they were beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive action program, according to a new Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education study. In a survey of 909 undocumented undergraduate students across 34 states, the report authors found that a majority of undocumented students in the study reported worries about being detained or deported, with about half “personally knowing someone who had been deported including a parent or a sibling.” Undocumented undergraduates also reported higher levels of anxiety than the clinical cut off level for the “norm” population.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday released military aid to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 overthrow of the government, in an effort to boost Cairo's ability to combat the extremist threat in the region.